The combination of CLIP and Segment Anything Model (SAM) is an innovative approach to Vision Foundation Models (VFM). SAM performs superior segmentation tasks in various domains, while CLIP is recognized for its exceptional zero-shot recognition capabilities.
While SAM and CLIP offer significant advantages, they also present limitations inherent to their original designs. SAM, for example, cannot recognize the segments it identifies. On the other hand, CLIP, trained using image-level contrast losses, faces challenges in adapting its representations for dense prediction tasks.
The simplistic fusion of SAM and CLIP is inefficient. This approach involves substantial computational expenditures and produces suboptimal results, particularly in small-scale object recognition. Researchers at Nanyang Technological University delve into the comprehensive integration of these two models into a cohesive framework called Open-Vocabulary SAM. Inspired by SAM, Open-Vocabulary SAM is meticulously designed for simultaneous interactive segmentation and recognition tasks.
This innovative model leverages two different knowledge transfer modules: SAM2CLIP and CLIP2SAM. SAM2CLIP makes it easy to adapt SAM knowledge to CLIP using distillation and learnable transformer adapters. In contrast, CLIP2SAM transfers knowledge from CLIP to SAM, increasing its recognition capabilities.
Extensive experimentation with various datasets and detectors underlines the effectiveness of Open-Vocabulary SAM in both segmentation and recognition tasks. In particular, it outperforms naive baselines that involve simply combining SAM and CLIP. Furthermore, with the added advantage of training on image classification data, their method demonstrates the ability to effectively segment and recognize approximately 22,000 classes.
Aligned with the spirit of SAM, the researchers strengthen their model's recognition capabilities by leveraging the wealth of knowledge contained in established semantic datasets, including COCO and ImageNet-22k. This strategic use elevates your model to the same level of versatility as SAM, giving it an improved ability to segment and recognize various objects effectively.
Built on the basis of SAM, its approach shows flexibility, allowing seamless integration with various detectors. This adaptability makes it well suited for deployment in both closed and open environments. To validate the robustness and performance of their model, they conduct extensive experiments on a diverse set of data sets and scenarios. Their experiments cover closed scenarios as well as open-vocabulary interactive segmentation, showing the broad applicability and effectiveness of their approach.
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